LR-BEHAV-ACCESS: canvas tools by keyboard; name hand-drawn widgets; Tab order test

canvas_keys.rs gives every handle on the photo a focusable stand-in with
an AccessKit name and position: crop corners, edges and box (crop.drag),
spot targets and sources plus a New spot point (Return adds), radial and
linear gradient handles and mask pins. Arrows move by 0.5% (Shift 5%),
one undo step per press; the stand-in keeps arrows/Return/Space from the
shortcuts. The audit now counts any focusable or clickable node; ~50
hand-drawn icons, tiles and rows are announced as buttons. A test walks
Tab through the Edit/Crop/Remove/Masking panels top to bottom.

Sources: own design.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Gaps: where LightCraft falls short of Lightroom
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (gap 23: AccessKit audit test landed, estimate 10–20 h → 4–8 h) · **Target:** Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (gap 23: canvas tools by keyboard, 4–8 h → 2–4 h) · **Target:** Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6
Every known shortfall, one entry each, ranked by user impact (how many Lightroom users hit it, and
how hard it blocks them), then by effort. **Agents pick work from the top** (the first entry nobody is
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| 20 | **Long-tail raw formats**: compressed SRW, ARQ pixel shift, IIQ, Hasselblad compression, X3F, CRW, MRW, ERF, KDC, DCR, MEF, GPR, old FinePix | raw-parity.md | small user share each | 45–85 | [raw-parity](raw-parity.md) |
| 21 | **Localization**: 9 of 15 shipped languages partial (74–99% of catalog messages), lower-layer errors English; Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian, Korean, Vietnamese absent; no RTL or complex shaping | measured from catalogs | non-English users see mixed English | 55–90 (shipped to full); 145–255 (five new) | [localization-parity](localization-parity.md) |
| 22 | **Pen pressure**, OS monitor profiles, follow-window colour | hardware-parity.md | brush users with tablets; multi-monitor setups | 11–22 | [hardware-parity](hardware-parity.md) |
| 23 | **Accessibility**: AccessKit tree audited by a test (every control named, sliders with range); left: canvas handles, spot and mask placement by keyboard, a session with a real screen reader | LR-BEHAV-ACCESS 🟡 | blind and low-vision users | 4–8 | [ui-parity](ui-parity.md) |
| 23 | **Accessibility**: AccessKit tree audited by a test; canvas handles, spots and mask pins by keyboard; left: brush and red-eye by keyboard, a session with a real screen reader | LR-BEHAV-ACCESS 🟡 | blind and low-vision users | 2–4 | [ui-parity](ui-parity.md) |
| 24 | **Brush live preview and masking feel** (#517, #518); Feather / Edge mask refinement (15.5) | issues | masking feels slower than Lightroom | 8–12 | [ui-parity](ui-parity.md) |
| 25 | **File writes**: lossy DNG, Render to DNG; AVIF import (PSD export landed with Edit in PhotoCraft, #953) | file-format-parity.md | interchange edge cases | 21–37 | [file-format-parity](file-format-parity.md) |
| 26 | **Performance at scale**: 85k-photo library opens in 1.7–4.7 s; 100k grid test pending; colour NR at half resolution | ROADMAP log, gpu-pipeline.md | large-catalog users | 15–30 | [target-app-parity](target-app-parity.md#by-dimension) |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Gap 23 (accessibility): crop handles, spots, gradient handles and mask pins by keyboard; 4–8 h → 2–4 h; gap not closed |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Gap 23 (accessibility): the AccessKit tree audit and its fixes landed; what is left is canvas placement by keyboard and a real screen-reader session; 10–20 h → 4–8 h; gap not closed |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Reviewed against main after 0.6.0: CR3 entry names the CRX variants `crx.rs` still refuses and the R7 / R6 Mark II C-RAW state (decoding, not verified, so the measured numbers don't move); CI and Windows / Linux entries note the riscv64 release build (#844); R7 fix added to Closed recently. Panel docking (UI.9, #869) closes no listed gap |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Camera colour entry: raws with a black-and-white camera JPEG take its tone curve (#577); gap not closed |
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# Lightroom parity checklist
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (LR-BEHAV-ACCESS: AccessKit audit test) · **Target:** Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (LR-BEHAV-ACCESS: canvas tools by keyboard) · **Target:** Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6
The measured, row-by-row checklist: one row per Lightroom feature, menu item and shortcut, what we
have and what is missing. It answers *does the feature exist?* (feature breadth). Whether it is good
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| LR-BEHAV-TOOLTIPS | Tooltips with shortcuts | P0 | ✅ | `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/bottombar.rs` | |
| LR-BEHAV-TEXTFIELD | Text fields behave alike | P1 | 🟡 | `crates/ui-egui/src/text_field.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/topbar.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/right.rs` (`meta_field`), `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/dialogs.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/unnamed.rs` | one shared field: right-click Cut / Copy / Paste / Select All (no Paste in the browser), Esc gives back the text from before the edit, Return / leaving / Esc reported to the caller, optional select-on-focus; agents use `ui.clipboard` (MCP `clipboard`) and `ui.inspect` → `copied`. Used by Search Photos, slider values, the Info panel's metadata fields (multi-line captions), the one-field dialogs (New / Rename Album, New Smart Album, Rename / Merge Keywords, text prompts) and the unnamed faces' name field so far; the other text fields (most dialogs, import, settings, masking, keywords …) still use egui's own and have no menu |
| LR-BEHAV-HEADLESS | Headless UI snapshots | P2 | ✅ | `apps/lightcraft-cli/src/main.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/headless.rs`, `docs/control-protocol.md` | `snapshot` rasterizes the UI and defaults photo development to the CPU before the first frame, without adapter discovery; scaled dimensions are validated before allocation, and UI zoom preserves the requested physical viewport; JSON-lines control scripts are supported |
| LR-BEHAV-ACCESS | Accessibility | P2 | 🟡 | `crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/text_field.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/grid.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/tests/accessibility.rs` | AccessKit (VoiceOver / Narrator / AT-SPI): sliders announce control, value, range and step and take Increment / Decrement, buttons / icon buttons / dropdowns / section headers / sources their labels and state, text fields their caption, grid thumbnails file name, rating, flag and label. `tests/accessibility.rs` fails on an unnamed control, a slider without range or an untitled dialog in every view, Develop tool and 13 dialogs, and checks that Crop and Remove sliders are reached with Tab. Canvas handles, spot and mask placement are pointer-only; not tried with a real screen reader ([audit](ui-parity.md#accessibility-audit)) |
| LR-BEHAV-ACCESS | Accessibility | P2 | 🟡 | `crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/text_field.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/panels/grid.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/tests/accessibility.rs` | AccessKit (VoiceOver / Narrator / AT-SPI): sliders announce control, value, range and step and take Increment / Decrement, buttons / icon buttons / dropdowns / section headers / sources their labels and state, text fields their caption, grid thumbnails file name, rating, flag and label. `tests/accessibility.rs` fails on an unnamed control, a slider without range or an untitled dialog in every view, Develop tool and 13 dialogs, and checks that Crop and Remove sliders are reached with Tab and that Tab walks the right panels top to bottom. Canvas tools by keyboard (`crates/ui-egui/src/canvas_keys.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/src/tests_canvas_keys.rs`): crop corners, edges and box, spot targets and sources, a New spot point (Return adds), radial / linear gradient handles and mask pins take the focus, are announced with their position and move with the arrows (Shift: further). Brush strokes and red-eye ellipses are pointer-only; not tried with a real screen reader ([audit](ui-parity.md#accessibility-audit)) |
| LR-BEHAV-LOCALE | Language options | P2 | ✅ | `cmd:app.language.english`, `cmd:app.language.simplifiedChinese`, `cmd:app.language.traditionalChinese`, `cmd:app.language.japanese`, `cmd:app.language.portuguese`, `cmd:app.language.french`, `cmd:app.language.spanish`, `cmd:app.language.german`, `cmd:app.language.russian`, `cmd:app.language.ukrainian` | Edit > Language lists every language in the table and the active one is checked; shared with Settings > General (docs/localization.md) |
| LR-BEHAV-LOCALIZE | Localisation | P2 | 🟡 | `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n.rs`, `crates/ui-egui/locales/`, `docs/localization.md`, `docs/localization-zh-hans.md`, `docs/localization-zh-hant.md`, `docs/localization-ja.md`, `docs/localization-pt-br.md`, `docs/localization-es.md`, `docs/localization-de.md`, `docs/localization-ru.md` | One table entry per language (code, endonym, ISO 15924 script, catalog): English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, German, Russian and Ukrainian UI with a persisted language preference and craft-fonts regular/bold faces per script; menus, edit, crop/masks, settings, import/export and primary progress messages. Adding a language registers the locale and its language command, plus two catalogs. Stock presets/profiles, history steps, library headings, date headings and capture times are localised (user-named items stay verbatim); the Ukrainian catalog covers every existing catalog key, command/control label and rule-editor label; the German catalog reports newly added gaps; the other catalogs fall back to English for messages they lack. Technical errors remain English; release notes are translated in German and Ukrainian; craft-fonts faces for other scripts (Thai, Arabic, …) are UI fallbacks in every language, for file, folder and album names (#736); Traditional Chinese borrows the Simplified Chinese face (no TC face in craft-fonts yet), and the web build embeds the Japanese face in WASM while loading the Simplified Chinese face from a separate font file. |
| LR-BEHAV-LEARN | Tutorials | OOS | 🚫 | | |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | minor | LR-BEHAV-ACCESS: canvas handles by keyboard with AccessKit names and values; Tab order test; status stays 🟡 |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | LR-BEHAV-ACCESS: AccessKit tree audit test; text fields named, sliders expose range and Increment / Decrement; status stays 🟡 |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | KEY-SLIDER-TYPE: honor immediate Return/Escape and keep typed keys in the value editor; add regression references |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | LR-PROF-CAMERACOLOR: raws with a black-and-white camera JPEG take its tone curve (issue #577) |
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# Target-app parity: LightCraft vs Adobe Lightroom
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (UI/UX remaining 40–70 h → 34–58 h after the accessibility audit) · **Target:** Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 (August 2026) and Lightroom 9.6 (desktop)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (UI/UX remaining 32–54 h after canvas tools by keyboard) · **Target:** Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 (August 2026) and Lightroom 9.6 (desktop)
The authoritative assessment of how close LightCraft is to Lightroom. The row-by-row checklist is
[parity-checklist.md](parity-checklist.md); the ranked work list is [gaps.md](gaps.md); deep areas
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|---|---:|---:|---:|---|
| Features (weighted areas below) | ~77% (checklist 81.1%, measured) | ~61% | 600–1,100 h | [Features](#features) |
| ↳ RAW cameras, colour and lens profiles (part of features) | 81% of Adobe's 1,446 models decode (16% verified), measured | ~56% | 255–480 h | [raw-parity.md](raw-parity.md) |
| UI/UX fidelity | ~85% | ~70% | 34–58 h | [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
| UI/UX fidelity | ~85% | ~70% | 32–54 h | [ui-parity.md](ui-parity.md) |
| File formats (non-raw: images, sidecars, presets, catalogs) | ~85% | ~70% | 30–55 h | [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
| Hardware | ~50% | ~40% | 40–80 h (+ tethering and printing, counted under Classic modules) | [hardware-parity.md](hardware-parity.md) |
| Localization (12 key languages) | 7 of 12 present | ~52% (mean of the 12, measured) | 130–210 h for the target's set; +145–255 h for Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Korean | [localization-parity.md](localization-parity.md) |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | minor | UI/UX remaining 34–58 h → 32–54 h (canvas tools by keyboard); headline numbers unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | UI/UX remaining 40–70 h → 34–58 h (accessibility audit landed, ui-parity.md); percentages unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | EOS R5 Mark II CR3 verified (raw-parity.md): use-weighted share whose camera decodes 84% → 85%, RAW decoding 76% → 77%; full 60.6% → 60.7%, mainstream depth 71.8% → 72.1%, essentials depth 77.4% → 77.5%; the rounded numbers (~61%, ~49%, ~64%) are unchanged |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | RAW measured model by model (raw-parity.md): RAW decoding (76%) and colour (35%) are explicit rows of the full sum (59% → 61%); mainstream uses the use-weighted 84% plus a ×0.85 colour discount (51% → 49%); essentials uses 84% × colour 0.75 (63% → 64%); beta ~14 points |
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# UI parity
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (accessibility audit: test over the AccessKit tree; fields, sliders and dialogs named) · **Target:** Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (canvas tools by keyboard; focus-order test; ~50 unnamed hand-drawn widgets named) · **Target:** Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6
How LightCraft's interaction compares with Lightroom's: views, panels, tools and handles, modifier
keys, shortcuts, zoom, context menus and feel. Rows for individual menu items and shortcuts live in
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| Shortcuts | Lightroom desktop and Classic keymaps | Lightroom-desktop keymap with Classic additions, editable | 85% | deliberate differences below; no Classic keymap layer |
| Context menus | everywhere | 26 sites (grid, filmstrip, albums, folders, keywords, masks, presets…) | 70% | unaudited against Lightroom's menus item by item |
| Text fields | native editing behaviour | custom text field (LR-BEHAV-TEXTFIELD) | 70% | IME and selection edge cases |
| Accessibility | VoiceOver / Narrator, keyboard navigation | AccessKit tree audited by a test in every view, Develop tool and the main dialogs: every control named, sliders with value, range and Increment / Decrement, dialogs titled, tool sliders reachable with Tab | 55% | crop handles, spot and mask placement on the canvas still need the pointer; not tried with a real screen reader ([audit](#accessibility-audit)) |
| Accessibility | VoiceOver / Narrator, keyboard navigation | AccessKit tree audited by a test in every view, Develop tool and the main dialogs: every control named, sliders with value, range and Increment / Decrement, dialogs titled, tool sliders reachable with Tab; crop handles, spots, gradient handles and mask pins by keyboard | 75% | brush strokes and red-eye ellipses need the pointer; not tried with a real screen reader ([audit](#accessibility-audit)) |
| Feel and responsiveness | GPU-interactive sliders (15.3) | ≤ 16 ms slider budget on GPU; background renders | 75% | colour NR at half resolution, 100k-photo grid test |
| **UI/UX overall** | | | **~70%** | estimated, weighted by use (develop and library 60%, tools 25%, rest 15%) |
Remaining: **34–58 h** (zoom detail 8–15 h, brush and masking feel 8–12 h, accessibility 4–8
Remaining: **32–54 h** (zoom detail 8–15 h, brush and masking feel 8–12 h, accessibility 2–4
h, Classic keymap layer 4–8 h, context-menu audit 4–8 h, text-field and IME polish 4–8 h). Output
modules and AI tools are counted with their features in [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md).
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- Auto Stack's time slider had no name.
Keyboard reach: Crop (angle, offsets, scale, aspect) and Remove (size, feather, opacity) settings
are reached with Tab and adjusted with the arrow keys (tested). Still pointer-only: dragging crop
handles, placing a spot or a brush stroke, and moving a mask pin on the canvas. Not done: a session
with a real screen reader on each platform, and focus order (egui follows drawing order: top bar,
left panel, canvas, right panel, which is sensible but not tuned).
are reached with Tab and adjusted with the arrow keys (tested).
Canvas tools by keyboard (`crates/ui-egui/src/canvas_keys.rs`, tests in `tests_canvas_keys.rs`):
every handle drawn on the photo has an invisible stand-in that takes the focus. Tab reaches it, a
screen reader reads its name and position ("Crop bottom-right corner", "left 0%, top 0%, right
100%, bottom 100%"; "Spot 1", "x 30%, y 60%, size 5%"), and the arrow keys move it by 0.5% of the
photo (Shift: 5%), one undo step per press. While it has the focus it keeps the arrows, Return
and Space, and the app's other shortcuts still work.
- Crop: four corners, four edges and the whole box (`crop.drag`, so the aspect lock and image
bounds apply as they do for a drag); Return applies the crop.
- Remove: each spot's target and source; a "New spot" point that starts at the centre, moves
with the arrows, and turns into a spot of the brush's size when you press Return.
- Masking: the four edges and the rotation handle of a radial gradient, the start and end of a
linear one, and each mask pin (moving one selects its mask).
Focus order: the audit now also counts any widget that takes the focus or a click, whatever its
role. That found about 50 hand-drawn icons, tiles and rows with no name: top-bar icons, flags and
stars, filmstrip and survey tiles, preset and profile rows, curve channels, colour wheels, mask
tiles and rows, slider labels and readouts. They are now announced as buttons. A test walks Tab
through the Edit, Crop, Remove and Masking panels and checks that it goes top to bottom (the tool
strip beside them is its own column, walked first). No reordering was needed once nothing
unnamed was in the way.
Not done: brush strokes and red-eye ellipses still need a pointer. Nobody has tried the app with
a real screen reader on any platform yet.
## Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Accessibility: crop handles, spots, gradient handles and mask pins operable by keyboard with AccessKit names and values; Tab order test for the right panels; hand-drawn icons and rows named; 55% → 75%; UI remaining 34–58 h → 32–54 h |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Accessibility: an AccessKit tree audit test over every view, Develop tool and 13 dialogs; unnamed fields, slider ranges and the Auto Stack slider fixed; 30% → 55%; UI remaining 40–70 h → 34–58 h |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Zoom row: Compare and Reference get zoom windows; what remains of LR-VIEW-ZOOM is overlays and soft proofing |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created: measured command and shortcut counts, assessment by area, estimates; moved the shortcut conflicts section here from the checklist |